Text 29513, 95 rader
Skriven 2006-05-14 01:28:48 av Philip Lozier (1:267/169)
  Kommentar till text 29471 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
Ärende: Canadian "Skills"
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 RW>>> You don't know shit from shinola...

 PL>> Oh jes I do-oooooo. And not when they're a pile on the floor either.
 PL>> Yet I do not -really- know what "shinola" is (although of course I
 PL>> heard the term before) nor am I sure I -want- to know.  Couldn't care
 PL>> less really.

 RW> LOL! Shit and Shinola have something in common, they both could be
 RW> black,
 RW> brown and sometimes even white.

Sounds like people.

 RW> I've never seen any green shinola,
 RW> but
 RW> I've seen green and yellow shit before.

AYE!!! My son was very good at that! <G> ... gotta remind him of that some day
when he's acting like his shit don't stink ... <G> He's 25 now, hasn't given me
a grandson yet, and... well... anyway...

 RW> Maybe there is green and/or
 RW> yellow
 RW> shinola, but I've never seen any.

I've seen green and yellow shit (not to mention other combinations)... Shinola,
for some reason, seems to scare the shit out of me at this time :>

 RW> The phrase comes from city boys who're addressing 'farmers'...

 RW> When the farm boys came to town, they had shit on their shoes from
 RW> all
 RW> that walking in the cow and pig pens.

Okay...

 RW> Sometimes it was black, sometimes with a green tint, but mostly,
 RW> it was brown.

You're scaring me Roy! ;>  You seem to know a little bit more than I ever
wanted to know about shit ;>

<cut>

 RW> Shinola of course, is the name of the manufacturer who makes shoe
 RW> polish.

OK.  Now it starts to make sense... but Shinola is no longer produced, right? 
Hence why people of my age or younger would have no idea what it was.

 PL>> We're not talking wood and band piles, but intact barrels... meaning
 PL>> the structure intact, despite the condition of the materials... can,
 PL>> or cannot, an empty barrel rattle. SHUT UP! But answer the question.

 RW> No, empty barrels do not rattle.

Some do... some don't.  There are factors involved with the particular barrels.
SOME empty barrels most certainly DO rattle.  Stop saying "NO", and figure it
out.

 RW> I've been trying to educate you since this all began. There is
 RW> nothing in
 RW> an empty barrel, therefore there is nothing that will make the
 RW> barrel
 RW> rattle.

But you are reasoning from the POV that the rattling comes from the area which
was meant to contain something within.

Maybe, the empty barrel that rattles, is rattling from the barrel itself.  NOT
what may or may not be contained within it.

It's too fucking simple!  You should have had this ages ago.  You're no fucking
dummy from my POV, but you damn sure are "tunnel visioned" and closed minded.

*THAT* pisses me off!  It really does!  It really does because I KNOW you know
better.

 PL>> I wasn't "given" the asnwer (this isn't Jeapordy ya know), but
 PL>> thought about it, formulated an oppinion, and solicited outside the
 PL>> echo if I was "on the right track" via (oh that wonderful thing
 PL>> again) netmail... a puzzle to me, and I wanted to solve it.

 RW> LOL! Logic failed you then.

Nope.  But logic seems to escape you.  In your case, something you never had
can fail you.

Bye... I don't even feel like going down through the rest of this message.

Blah, blah, blah... and yadda, yadda, yadda.

You never get to a definitive point.  EVER.
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